On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 10:51 +0200, Ismael Valladolid
Torres wrote:
I assumed that the same sound output was being
forwarded to both the
analog output and the optical output as S/PDIF, but I might be wrong.
you are almost certainly wrong. reflecting the design of most chipsets,
ALSA tends to represent analog and digital I/O's as distinct PCM
devices.
$ cat /proc/asound/devices
(...)
48: [ 1- 0]: digital audio playback
49: [ 1- 1]: digital audio playback
56: [ 1- 0]: digital audio capture
57: [ 1- 1]: digital audio capture
Then could it be that 1-0 is expected to be analog and 1-1 S/PDIF?
Cordially, Ismael
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Ismael Valladolid Torres "Il est vain de pleurer sur l'esprit, il suffit
de travailler pour lui." Albert Camus